Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 893.001Y9/8.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chinese Chargé d’Affaires.

No. 255.]

Department of State,
Washington, October 10, 1913.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 6th instant by which the Department is informed that the Chinese National Assembly had on that day elected the Provisional President, Yuan Shih Kai, to be President of the Republic of China, and that he would be inaugurated on the 10th instant.

In reply I have the honor to state that the President has been happy to despatch to His Excellency Yuan Shih Kai a telegram of congratulation, a copy of which I beg to enclose.

Accept [etc.]

J. B. Moore.